Special post for Michael Lim

Ok, I ripped off Funk Firm's mighty Vector Drive. But as stuff like this is common knowledge for engineers I still can sleep at night. I wrote some place else that my turntable wasn't built for looks and this pictures are proof. Whereever precision was needed I did my best to achieve it. my measuring devices are in the 1/100 mm range and I used them a lot.


For best results mount the motor pulleys so that their outer contact points to the belt are in the exact same distace to each other.


The extra pulleys are bearings with ceramic balls. The seals on the inside are removed, two bearings stacked on a screw, a slim washer is added so the nut doesn't rub against the bearing and the whole thing mounted on the plinth.
I can't comment on any improvements in sound quality because this turntable was built like this from the start. But I can tell you it doesn't sound bad at all.

Where can you go from there??

I exchanged the old felt mat with a Funk Achromat. Slight but noticable improvement in sound and no more static discharge. Very nice.
And as I'm still in the process of listening to ALL of my records again there are still no photos. Which isn't so bad as the finished turntable isn't exactly beautiful. It was built for SOUND and it does just that.

Busy busy busy

Soooooo kids, no new photos or postings as the first record is spinning!!!! Hawkwinds mighty Space Ritual is spinning on my new turntable, going through my tube preamp Jürgen van Look built and my Manley Mahis.

Ingredient Bonanza

So far we added aluminum (7075 T6 if anyone cares...), slate, brass, lead and epoxy to the mix. Stay tuned for POM, bitumen, stainless steel, bronze and ruby. And ceramic. And rubber. We're getting close to putting the mechanics together. Oh, and there will also be some carbon fiber to fix a problem that occured because I changed the original design about a gazillion times sice I first started.

More resonance control

Brass, slate and underneath some hidden lead. A few days back I posted a picture where you could see the slots I machined into the basic aluminium piece of the turntable. These will be filled with this mixture and epoxy. 70% slate 10% brass 10% lead in 10% epoxy. It then looks like this:


Metal has a "ring" to it. Which is bad. Filled with this goo the ring is gone. I took the idea from swiss machine tool manufacturer Studer who invented their trademark GRANITAN in the seventies to substitute cast iron as the material of choice for machine bases. For detail why and all that check wikipedia and the Studer site. As the name implies the mighty GRANITAN is composed of granite and epoxy. As slate is highly regarded in hifi for base plates I used it instead of granite. No deeper thoughts or calculations are behind this, just the feeling it won't be totally wrong.